[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

[Luke Faraone]

On Feb 11, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:38:27PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>> On 2/11/09, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:24:20AM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Debian POV: Someone needs to volunteer packaging
>>>>> "sugar-etoys-activity". Drop an email to
>>>>> debian-olpc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org .
>>>>>
>>>>> Ubuntu POV: Someone needs to volunteer hacking[1] together a sugar
>>>>> activity package until a Debian package can be adopted. More info
>>>>> at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam
>>>>>
>>>>> I recommend helping as "upstream" as possible instead of only
>>>>> locally for Ubuntu. YMMV.
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>> Maybe we're just thick, but neither Morgan nor I were able to use  
>> your
>> git README.packaging to upgrade a package to a new upstream version.
>> It doesn't matter wheter we were upgrading sugar-base or Pippy.
>>
>> It seems that the file is missing some steps; moreover, how can we be
>> expected to package new activities with git when even the steps for
>> maintaining existing ones are lacking.
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> Maybe it is me who are thick. Let's see if I understand it correctly:
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> 1) You consider packaging Pippy and sugar-base my way equally complex.
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> 2) Failure to understand my way of sugar-base packaging is your reason
> for not packaging *anything* in *any* way through Debian.
>
> Or did I miss something?
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